Anacortes, Wash.-based Bayside Dental recently suffered a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the unauthorized access of patient information.
Bayside Dental was alerted to unauthorized access to its network on or around Jan. 5. A ransomware group named Sinobi claimed responsibility for the attack Jan. 21, according to an April 21 report on ClaimDepot. The ransomware group said it obtained 580 gigabytes of data, including customer information, contracts and incident records.
The practice discovered through an investigation that the potentially impacted information may include names, dates of birth, medical treatment information, medical diagnostic information, prescription information, patient numbers and dates of service.
The practice said in a breach notification that it is not aware of any reports of identity fraud as a direct result of the incident.
The Cole & Van Note law firm said April 21 that it is investigating the breach.
Several law firms have begun investigating the breach, including Cole & Van Note and Shamis & Gentile.
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